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Palin to Appear on Saturday Night Live This Weekend

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October 16, 2008 11:24 PM

Live from New York, it’s Sarah Palin!

After weeks of being skewered by comedian Tina Fey on NBC's "Saturday Night Live", Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is scheduled to appear on the program this weekend, ABC News has learned.

Palin will travel to New York on Saturday, and is tentatively scheduled to appear on the sketch comedy program that has parodied the Republican vice presidential nominee in three skits this fall.

It is not clear whether Palin will appear in a live segment with Tina Fey, whose uncanny separated-at-birth impersonation of Palin has drawn rave reviews, including one from Palin herself. Fey, who now produces and stars in the NBC sitcom "30 Rock," had previously served as the head writer of "SNL" and co-anchor of the show's "Weekend Update."

During a press availability aboard the Palin campaign plane last week, Palin called Fey's  impersonation a "hoot" and said that would "love to" appear on the program to try to give the comedian a taste of her own medicine. Palin says she has dressed up as Fey for Halloween in the past.

"I love her," Palin said of Fey. "She's a hoot and she's so talented and it would be fun to either imitate her or keep on giving her more material and keep her in business."

When Palin's running mate Sen. John McCain was asked by David Letterman during a taping of "The Late Show" on Thursday whether Palin would appear on “SNL,” he said, "I think she is, yes," adding that the appearance "will probably get more of an audience than our debate did," referring to Wednesday night’s final presidential debate between McCain and Sen. Barack Obama.

SNL first parodied Palin in a sketch for the show’s season premiere last month, with Fey playing Palin as part of a joint press conference with Sen. Hillary Clinton, played by the show's resident Clinton impersonator Amy Poehler. Two weeks later, Poehler changed roles, impersonating Katie Couric interviewing Tina Fey's Palin in a parody of Palin’s widely-panned interview with the CBS News anchor. And just two weeks ago, the program performed an extended spoof of Palin’s vice presidential debate with Sen. Joe Biden.

Saturday Night Live has been a critical stopping point on the campaign trail. Both Sens. McCain and Obama have made live cameos on the program in the last year. Sen. Clinton also secretly flew to New York in March to appear in a well-received skit alongside Poehler, who played Clinton on the program throughout the Democratic primaries.

Fey has said she will continue the impersonation of Palin until Election Day, but told TV Guide in an interview that she's "done" with the impersonation if the McCain-Palin ticket wins the election.

"We're gonna take it week by week," Fey told TV Guide for an upcoming issue. "If she wins, I'm done. I can't do that for four years. And by 'I'm done,' I mean I'm leaving Earth."

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She's a great entertainer, as long as she is fully scripted and doesn't have to think, she will be very funny.

Thanks to the excellence of marketing and the gullibility of people she will go far.

Posted by: Truth Matters | Oct 16, 2008 11:37:13 PM

AWESOME..... Rock on Sarah! What bothers the liberals about Sarah Palin is she actually has more experience then Obama. No wonder they've tried everything they can to try to distroy her. She'll be GREAT on SNL!!

Posted by: Gary | Oct 16, 2008 11:37:45 PM

Making a joke out of a joke will not make her very serious lack of qualifications any less serious.

Posted by: jamie hanlon | Oct 16, 2008 11:39:47 PM

Sarah Palin will make a Wonderful VP... she's a true American who will suprise ALOT of people when she gets to Washington! GO McCAIN/PALIN!!!!!!

Posted by: Joe The Plumber | Oct 16, 2008 11:42:48 PM

Gary

Experience doing what. Abusing power. You are right ... that she does.

Posted by: al | Oct 16, 2008 11:44:02 PM

Not only is Sarah Palin the successful Governor of the LARGEST State in the Union...... she's also HOT! I agree she'll hit a homerun on SNL!

Posted by: Doug | Oct 16, 2008 11:45:35 PM

I forgot you need a few years as a community organizer on the streets of Sickcago to have any true experience! haha.... I love you bleedin' heart libs!

Posted by: Gary | Oct 16, 2008 11:47:51 PM

Joe the "Contractor"

So tell me what is a untrue American. Is that some type of code word

How do you classify as being a true American. Does your spouse have to be part of a movement for Alaska to succeed from the US to be called a true American.

Do you have to have a witch chaser pray over you to be a true american

Do you have to lie endlessly to be a true american

How about abusing power. is the that the litmus test of being a true american.

How about being folksy without a clue of foreign policy except for the fact that russia is next door to your state.


awesome american she is.

Posted by: al | Oct 16, 2008 11:49:34 PM

say it ain't so JOE! THIS IS AN UNPRECEDENTED IDIOT

Posted by: EYESURGERY | Oct 16, 2008 11:50:14 PM

Obama has experience being friends with TERRORIST. White Hate Preachers

Running the Obama bus over his grandmother.

A new one is to take your money and keep it. SPREADING THE WEALTH.

Posted by: al | Oct 16, 2008 11:50:24 PM

Wow Doug

Just what we need in these great times of uncertainty.

A HOT VP. Your logic is astounding.

Posted by: al | Oct 16, 2008 11:51:45 PM

I also would like to say, I will not be watching, and, I am going to make sure my 20+thousand patients aren't either. Past the word to their families and friends.

Posted by: EYESURGERY | Oct 16, 2008 11:52:22 PM

That freaking F-word Obama wants to take my hard earned money and spread it out ro WELFARE QUEENS. And if I complain Obama and his Terrorist friends will cry RACISM

Posted by: Joe the Plumber | Oct 16, 2008 11:52:35 PM

After Obama get thru with his Medical Insurance take over by the Gov't no REAL doctor is going to want to work in America any more.

The only doctors left will be the ones who got a degree out of a cracker jack box and are BLACK and stupid

Posted by: EYESURGERY | Oct 16, 2008 11:54:40 PM

No Al.... but a true American would be happy more then ONCE in her life to be proud of her country. Unlike Obama's wonderful wife. Don't you think Al? hmmm?

Posted by: Gary | Oct 16, 2008 11:54:44 PM

Palin is a joke. What experience does she have? Abusing power?

For the last time, OBAMA IS NOT A MUSLIM OR A WHITE-HATER. Stop spreading false lies, even McCain said he is not a Muslim. Obama's mother was white-- does that mean he hates his own mother???

I cannot believe how racist Americans are. No wonder everyone hates Americans. You are the laughing stock of the world, everyone here in England is laughing at your stupidity. We've seen the racist bigotry at McCain/Palin rallies and it is beyond reprehensible.

Posted by: katie butler | Oct 16, 2008 11:57:29 PM

Give her a pole, she'll be great like Gary of the Dynamic Gay Duo said in the second post.

Posted by: Joe The Plumber owes taxes | Oct 16, 2008 11:57:34 PM

Come on Al.... sounds like you're an angry lib. You've been attending the Rev. Wright's church of Anti-American Hate?

Posted by: Doug | Oct 16, 2008 11:59:13 PM

I finally finished j off to my sweet Sarah.

Posted by: Doug | Oct 17, 2008 12:02:12 AM

I finally finished s off to Doug

Posted by: Gary | Oct 17, 2008 12:04:31 AM

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